July 2011
20 posts
1 tag
How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? →
infographic showing how many sales or downloads an artist needs every month to make minimum wage. (Example, an artist would need to have 4,053,110 streams a month on Spotify to make $1,160 in income.)
This was mentioned on TWIT episode 310
Walking Papers →
Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in and help OpenStreetMap improve its coverage of local points of interests and street detail. Walking Papers is a product of Stamen Design’s Michal Migurski.
Historypin | Home →
1 tag
“I’ll put it this way, brother: You’ve got to be a thermostat rather than a...”
– Do you want to be a thermostat, or a thermometer?
I like this image of a thermostat vs a thermometer as a metaphor for leaders. It also reminds me of “Are you the scanner or the barcode” by Cory Doctorow from Make volume 22 http://makezine.com/22/ (The article is not online.)
(Cornell...
“Running an organization is difficult in and of itself, no matter what its goals....”
– Shirky on change and the org, from Here Comes Everybody
2 tags
“Urgency is becoming increasingly important because change is shifting from...”
– p. 82, Kotter, John P, A Sense of Urgency, Harvard Business Press, 2008.
1 tag
“…Leading firms’ most profitable customers generally don’t want, and indeed...”
– p. 134, Christensen, Clayton M, The Inventor’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1997.
1 tag
“Greg and Connie were born in New Jersey, but from the moment the Internet...”
– Jonathan Lebed’s Extracurricular Activities - New York Times
2 tags
1 tag
“Amazon sells the same products as competitors such as Barnesandnoble.com, and...”
– What Is Web 2.0 - O’Reilly Media
(I love the notion of “making a science of user engagement” being the key differentiator. I’m reflecting on a social media strategy charrette I was just in where the client was confused about why their >$1M website only had 1,000 visits a...
1 tag
“…Web 2.0 companies set inclusive defaults for aggregating user data and...”
– What Is Web 2.0 - O’Reilly Media
(I’m thinking about how to give advice to a team contemplating an ambitious social tagging project…)
Listen
1 tag
JSNES: A JavaScript NES emulator – Ben Firshman →
this appears to be a page dedicated to game system emulators written in javascript.
smithsonian commons prototype →
1 tag
To do
Research this and that
“Mobile quote is goodness”
– Thing mcdoo
2 tags
1 tag
chat post
me: I like oranges
you: No, you don't
